Fabio Kubic is at it again. Another release by him under the Coagulant moniker means nice drones and heavily treated field recordings, for which VW is a perfect spot to be mentioned. The fact that the origin of Kringloop Kassettes is also the same office is no surprise, but as I didn’t have anything to do with the tape being released, I get to review it. And it’s a welcome addition to my collection.
The two long tracks covering almost 50 minutes are all based on sounds recorded by Fabio on the Kent coast—day and night environmental recordings made with hydrophonic, geophonic and ambisonic microphones. And with FX and feedback, it all results in the tracks “At Forms” and “Interiors”. Two beautiful, lengthy dronescapes (it’s how I describe the combination of drones and soundscapes) with a strong organic feel. Recordings of water and waves will always result in the purest form of filtered noise with LFOs added. And that also goes for these tracks. But Fabio has proven himself to know what he should do not to be distracted by this distinctive sound. He knows how to adapt the sound, creating the feeling of standing on the shore of a river or sea, even without the sound. And that’s a compliment.
The other thing that struck me is how Fabio uses feedback as an instrument. The difference between feedback and resonance is, for many people in the noise scene, obvious. One of them is hard to control, the other is too subtle to have a big impact. But on these recordings, you can hear how feedback is controlled and the thin line between the two becomes audible. And if you write compositions as fragile as these, you simple need to be in full control. Which he is. A+!
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